Hanafi

The Hanafi school is one of the four schools of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence, named for Abu Hanifa. Hanafism has the largest amount of followers among Sunnis, and it was more flexible in its interpretations of the Qur'an and hadiths, leading to the Turks becoming early followers of Hanafism, followed by the Abbasids in the 10th century. Hanafism is currently the largest school of Islam in Central Asia, South Asia, the Levant, Turkey, and Egypt.